emailing

Kathy

hi
Is am doing a project and in i must be able to email a client to confirm booking details from my system.
Would anyone know a good site or perhaps even the code that would help.
thanks kathy:)

Enygma

What language are you using?
Do a search on google for "$language email"

Where $language is the language you're using.

seamus

From recent forays into Perl, it seems the most user-friendly when it comes to emailing people thru SMTP, but I can hear the sound of glasses being dropped already.....so I'm gonna get outta here..........:)

Kathy

Sorry i wasnt specific i am doing it in java. I need to be able to send and receive emails in my system.
kathy

lynchie

Have a look at Javamail from Sun

http://java.sun.com/products/javamail/

Enygma

Sending mail in Perl is really easy, just like writing to a file.
The Javamail stuff is pretty simple too.

http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/onlineTraining/JavaMail/index.html

wee_lady

actually on a similar topic is there any way possible of doing the same thing in C?

Trojan

Originally posted by wee_lady
actually on a similar topic is there any way possible of doing the same thing in C?

Yeah it's possible alright, but depends on what kind of libs you're using, or whether you want to implement an email protocol like SMTP yourself (which, while not trivial, is quite possible).

What platform are you talking about?

Cheers,
Al.

phobos

Here is a great tutorial that has everything you need to know, in order to send and receive mail using Java:

http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-10-2001/jw-1026-javamail_p.html

Enjoy

;-phobos-)

dazberry

Originally posted by Trojan


Yeah it's possible alright, but depends on what kind of libs you're using, or whether you want to implement an email protocol like SMTP yourself (which, while not trivial, is quite possible).

What platform are you talking about?

Cheers,
Al.

SMTP is indeed the "transfer" protocol (which is simple - as it says on the tin!), but don't forget that mail message formats are RFCed aswell. So you'll need to implement both the SMTP and Mail encoding RFCs.

In reality you could probably fudge both, as your Mail message could be very simple (i.e. if you don't need attachments, encoding etc), and you could short cut the SMTP protocol to not handle the full range of errors, i.e. it either sends or not